Month: December 2014

2014, you’ve been a real year, you old so-and-so. But we’re done talking about you! We’re looking ahead to 2015. We’re making resolutions, both for ourselves, and for comics. Stuff we want to see, and stuff we don’t want to see. Maybe even stuff that we’d like to see in this podcast!

We all know that the real reason for the season is The Big Man. Yeah, you know who I’m talking about: Drunk Uncle Galactus. So sit a spell, and let us present to you an old tyme radio play that we here at Zero Issues call A Galactus Family Christmas. Merry Kreemas to all, and to all the ham.

Today on the Zero Issues Advent Calendar, we’re talking about the best comics that take place at Christmas, and that means ripping off Alien, ninja battles, and Impulse, Impulse, Impulse! Because, let’s face it, Christmas issues aren’t always the best, so we have to dig a little to find the good stuff!

It’s the shortest lightning round episode yet as the boys answer more listener topics, this time from Shelley Bujold-Brignall, Todd Shewchuk, and Jay Boaz! How would Captain Nemo from “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” decorate for Christmas? How would OTHER comic characters decorate? And why is bald… smexy? Find out today!

What does “Welcome to Hereafter,” a comic where all of the gods (like, all of ’em!) coexist in one city, have to tell us about Christmas? How does Jesus feel about a corporate holiday that celebrates his not-even-actual-birthday? We got the author of the comic to tell us! And the author is Bry!

Tonight is winter solstice, or by another name… the Blackest Night? So to mark the occasion, we totally gloss over “Blackest Night” and talk about a bunch of OTHER apocalypse-based comic stories instead! And just in time for Christmas!

It’s the final Mystery Question of the Zero Issues Advent Calendar, and this one’s a doozy, as Merk has not one question, but maybe a couple? Maybe you’ll have to listen to this extra length episode to find out!

In today’s episode, listener and friend of the show (Hey, can we say “friend of the show” now? Neat!) Evan Hodgins supplied us with a topic: what are our personal best and worst Non-Marvel/DC comic movies? Oh, and have we got some opinions there!

Hey, you wanna fight about it? …Is what we say to various comic book characters in today’s Zero Issues Advent Calendar episode! From the most pathetic “I could definitely take them” to the “well, I think it would be a fun time” to “Kyle does not have a fetish, come on,” we tackle the issue, no holds barred, third fighting analogy.

Most comic book readers can trace their reading history back to a handful of single issues, but let’;s say you had to pick a single issue to get someone into comics. Would you choose something classic? Something family-friendly? Something subversive? Maybe even something classy? And would you trust the three of us to make that choice for you?